When news of the furor got back to the Grammy-winning 30-year-old, he too took to social media for a classic, ‘Who, me?” routine.

“A fake witches nose, wig, and beard = random costume. Not my idea of a stereotype of anybody,” Mackelmore wrote. Leading Rogen to point out the obvious: “If I told someone to put together an anti Semitic Jew costume, they’d have that exact shopping list.”

.@macklemore really?? Because if I told someone to put together an anti Semitic Jew costume, they'd have that exact shopping list.

“On Friday night we had a surprise show at the EMP Museum in Seattle. Earlier in the day I thought it would be fun to dress up in a disguise and go incognito to the event, so that I could walk around unnoticed and surprise the crowd with a short performance. I picked up a bunch of fake mustaches and beards and grabbed a left over wig from our recent trip to Japan,” he wrote. “As it turns out the fake noses they sell at the costume store are usually big (my nose didn’t fit most of them). So I ended up with a big witch nose. I went with a black beard, because that’s the furthest color from my natural hair. Disguise was the intention. I personally thought I looked very ambiguous in terms of any “type” of person. Some people there thought I looked like Ringo, some Abe Lincoln. If anything I thought I looked like Humpty Hump with a bowl cut.

“The character I dressed up as on Friday had no intended cultural identity or background,” he continued. “I wasn’t attempting to mimic any culture, nor resemble one. A “Jewish stereotype” never crossed my mind.

My intention was to dress up and surprise the people at the show with a random costume and nothing more. Thus, it was surprising and disappointing that the images of a disguise were sensationalized leading to the immediate assertion that my costume was anti-Semetic. I acknowledge how the costume could, within a context of stereotyping, be ascribed to a Jewish caricature. I am here to say that it was absolutely not my intention, and unfortunately at the time I did not foresee the costume to be viewed in such regard. I’m saddened that this story, or any of my choices, would lead to any form of negativity.”

For continuity’s sake, Macklemore concluded by checking his privilege, noting the ordeal made him “hip to some incredible groups like the ADL and I encourage people to check the great work they, and others like them, do: http://www.adl.org“